MAL-2025-5653

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    MAL-2025-5653

    Published: 4 Jul 2025Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in hellodista (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (988e08e45c0c2fdbdf337e012d3930d14eedbe4add858a55cee2156849033b90) Series of packages mostly with an obfuscated infostealer attempting to collect Chrome data. While discord webhook is usually set to an example, there are other, correct uploading URLs Some of related packages only test partial malicious code, like webhooks from overwritten setup.py Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-07-0x9xnx Reasons (based on the campaign): - infostealer - obfuscation - exfiltration-browser-data - exfiltration-crypto - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. Source: ossf-package-analysis (3311ae2d4539920be4c0baaaa8587368a7c562bf75e9ec8a8b27fa42898f906f) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'hellodista' @ 0.1.2 (pypi) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hellodista

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: hellodista

    Purl: pkg:pypi/hellodista

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.2
    0.1.0
    MAL-2025-5653 | CVE-DB